Comments on: Online chat on Wikipedia in the Academy http://alex.halavais.net/online-chat-on-wikipedia-in-the-academy Things that interest me. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:07:57 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mark Hatlie http://alex.halavais.net/online-chat-on-wikipedia-in-the-academy/comment-page-1#comment-164059 Mark Hatlie Sat, 28 Oct 2006 06:11:48 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/online-chat-on-wikipedia-in-the-academy/#comment-164059 I did a similar experiment a while ago and got mixed results. I blogged about it at http://hatlie.twoday.net/stories/2861465/ Mark H. I did a similar experiment a while ago and got mixed results. I blogged about it at

http://hatlie.twoday.net/stories/2861465/

Mark H.

]]> By: alex http://alex.halavais.net/online-chat-on-wikipedia-in-the-academy/comment-page-1#comment-163194 alex Wed, 25 Oct 2006 02:31:55 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/online-chat-on-wikipedia-in-the-academy/#comment-163194 That was a bit tongue-in-cheek. I didn't have the link right on the "Isuzu Experiment," but it's there now. Some folks were not happy about me inserting wrong info into Wikipedia. Very few people really noticed one way or the other, but those who did had some strong opinions. They saw--in some ways correctly--this as an issue of defacing a public good. In practice, I hope people saw some of the value of it, but if I had it to do again, I probably wouldn't. WIthout my fore-knowledge, some of my students did the same thing to an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quinnipiac_University&action=history" rel="nofollow">article recently</a>. I have a feeling that it is a pretty natural thing to try--in fact, that particular page has a continuing history of vandalism before and after. That was a bit tongue-in-cheek. I didn’t have the link right on the “Isuzu Experiment,” but it’s there now. Some folks were not happy about me inserting wrong info into Wikipedia. Very few people really noticed one way or the other, but those who did had some strong opinions. They saw–in some ways correctly–this as an issue of defacing a public good.

In practice, I hope people saw some of the value of it, but if I had it to do again, I probably wouldn’t. WIthout my fore-knowledge, some of my students did the same thing to an article recently. I have a feeling that it is a pretty natural thing to try–in fact, that particular page has a continuing history of vandalism before and after.

]]> By: Dan Geiser http://alex.halavais.net/online-chat-on-wikipedia-in-the-academy/comment-page-1#comment-163104 Dan Geiser Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:41:03 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/online-chat-on-wikipedia-in-the-academy/#comment-163104 How did you become a known Wikipedia spammer? How did you become a known Wikipedia spammer?

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